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 Makoto Sei Watanabe Design & Designless Design Japan 1999, 18' The aim of this project is the creation of a flexible reality similar to the movement of trees and plants in the wind. Organisms like vegetables perennially negotiate their positions according to external and environmental factors, and their self-induced equilibrium searches to exert the minimum amount of energy in every instance. The ultimate and extreme challenge of this project is the attempt to create a living entity capable of functioning with the self-maintenance and self-regulation of plants. This endeavor requires technologies developed from human fibers, solar cells and diode that emit sufficient amounts of light. Long stalks could dance in the wind as do weeds and grass and it would not be a movement induced by a designer, but a movement induced by the stalks and plants themselves as they bend in the wind. The form of this movement has yet to be designed, but it can be designed from elements or codes of nature, the codes of the "objects" and of their spontaneous systemization. It is design without design, or designless designs. Makoto sei Watanabe, born in 1952 in Yokohama, Japan, graduated in 1974 and later worked with Arata Isozaki in Tokyo. His works include many projects completed either independently or in groups as well as the publication of several books and articles. In 1998 a monograph dedicated to his works was published by Arca Edizioni in Italy. |
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